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July 2019

The Libyan Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the UN envoy Ghassan Salame had provided misinformation and fallacies about the conflict in Tripoli in his recent briefing at the Security Council.

The Interior Ministry said Salame gave untrue account when he referred to the arrest of the head of medicine and food control center Mohammed Al-Mashai in his account of the kidnapping of the member of House of Representatives Siham Sirgiwa, which showed him making equal the two incidents - humanitarian-wise and legal-wise.

The Libyan Presidential Council's Head Fayez Al-Sarraj has summoned the UN envoy to the country, Ghassan Salame, and complained about the misinformation provided by him at the Security Council last Monday.

Likewise, the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) said it was preparing a letter to respond to the statement of Salame at the Security Council, saying it will be sent to the Secretary General and member states in order to mark out the misinformation about the current conflict in Libya given by Salame last Monday.

The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj said the Turkish military support for the government in Tripoli comes at the request of the legitimate Libyan government to defend the capital and its residents against the attacking forces.

The commander of the Libyan Army's joint operations room and western military zone General Osama Juwaili said Libyan Army forces had taken measures to repel possible air raids on Tripoli by foreign parties backing up Khalifa Haftar's forces.

In a televised interview posted on Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) Operation's Facebook page, Juwaili said they had received intelligence about airstrikes on Tripoli by "foreign parties" and said there will be unexpected consequences for their response to such attacks.